1. Translation Parties are intended to help you make the best subtitle choice for a given anime. Choose which line(s) you liked best by selecting them with the checkbox.

2. I split the Party into two parts — Essential and Extended. Assuming you want to get this shit over with quickly, just go with the Essential choices. I picked these to be the most representative lines in the releases. But if you’re one of those people who want more comparisons to help you come to a decision, go with the Essential choices and the Extended ones.

3. If you didn’t like any of the lines, choose the “N/A” option. The results for “N/A” won’t be automatically tabulated, so you’ll have to do the math in your head. Have my gomens and nasais.

4. A “>” indicates that another character has begun speaking. If there are three characters in a line comparison, I will indicate the third with a “>>” and so on for more characters.

5. Group order is randomized for each screenshot, every time you refresh the page. However, the “N/A” option will always appear at the bottom of the screen.

6. Your results will be summed up when you click the “Get your results” button. Feel free to vote in the poll at the end/post in the comments to let others know how you did and to compare your results with them.

7. Party hard.

Note that there will be a companion piece for this TL Party coming later today.

Expanded 2.

Anime-Koi :: {\i1}These scissors have been at our house since long ago.{\i0}
{\i1}I’ve been cutting hair since I was a child.{\i0}
{\i1}I like cutting.{\i0}
{\i1}My family also enjoyed letting me cut their hair.{\i0}
{\i1}But they started going to a beauty salon.{\i0}
{\i1}They did not want me to cut any more.{\i0}

Asenshi :: {\i1} I gave haircuts with these scissors
{\i1}that belonged to my childhood home.{\i0}
{\i1}I liked doing that and my family enjoyed having me cut their hair as well.{\i0}
{\i1}But then, they started going to the hairdressers instead.
They had grown to hate it.{\i0}

Mezashite :: These scissors have been lying around my house since forever.
When I was little, I cut people’s hair with them.
I liked doing that.
Everyone in my family would let me cut their hair.
But eventually, everyone started going to proper hairdressers instead.
I hated that.

to avoid watching this shitty show cuz it sucks :: N/A. They all suck.

Expanded 9.

Anime-Koi :: Sometimes,
I have this dream.
That I have normal hair,
and I was talking with friends at school.
About topics like the newly opened confectionery shop,
or about some cool television star.
But it’s all a dream.
It’s all a dream, isn’t it?

Asenshi :: Sometimes, I have a dream.
A dream in which I have normal hair.
I talk to friends in school normally.
About a new candy shop,
or a cool celebrity.
But that’s only a dream.
Only a dream, right?

Mezashite :: From time to time, I have this dream.
In the dream, I have normal hair.
I’m at school, talking with friends.
Talking about the sweets shop that just opened up.
Talking about a handsome celebrity.
But it’s just a dream.
Just a dream, you know.

to avoid watching this shitty show cuz it sucks :: N/A. They all suck.

Asenshi :: So, in other words…
It cuts and it dismembers.
That’s Crime Edge.
>>>The Cutting and Dismembering Crime Edge!

Mezashite :: So, basically…
It cuts people up and severs them into pieces…
Crime Edge…
>>>The Crime Edge of Cutting and Severing!

to avoid watching this shitty show cuz it sucks :: N/A. They all suck.

Decision Point:

Holy fucking shit, Dark_Sage. Give me more comparisons. I fucking live for this! (Put the knife down and keep reading. We got ten more comparisons for ya.)
Oh my god, put a bullet in my head. When is this shit gonna be over with already? (You’ve seen enough for one lifetime. Head down to the results.)

Anime-Koi :: {\i1}These scissors have been at our house since long ago.{\i0}
{\i1}I’ve been cutting hair since I was a child.{\i0}
{\i1}I like cutting.{\i0}
{\i1}My family also enjoyed letting me cut their hair.{\i0}
{\i1}But they started going to a beauty salon.{\i0}
{\i1}They did not want me to cut any more.{\i0}

Asenshi :: {\i1} I gave haircuts with these scissors
{\i1}that belonged to my childhood home.{\i0}
{\i1}I liked doing that and my family enjoyed having me cut their hair as well.{\i0}
{\i1}But then, they started going to the hairdressers instead.
They had grown to hate it.{\i0}

Mezashite :: These scissors have been lying around my house since forever.
When I was little, I cut people’s hair with them.
I liked doing that.
Everyone in my family would let me cut their hair.
But eventually, everyone started going to proper hairdressers instead. {to include male family, not sure if he actually cut for them}
I hated that.

to avoid watching this shitty show cuz it sucks :: N/A. They all suck.

Anime-Koi :: Sometimes,
I have this dream.
That I have normal hair,
and I was talking with friends at school.
About topics like the newly opened confectionery shop,
or about some cool television star.
But it’s all a dream.
It’s all a dream, isn’t it?

Asenshi :: Sometimes, I have a dream.
A dream in which I have normal hair.
I talk to friends in school normally.
About a new candy shop,
or a cool celebrity.
But that’s only a dream.
Only a dream, right?

Mezashite :: From time to time, I have this dream.
In the dream, I have normal hair.
I’m at school, talking with friends.
Talking about the sweets shop that just opened up.
Talking about a handsome celebrity.
But it’s just a dream.
Just a dream, you know.

to avoid watching this shitty show cuz it sucks :: N/A. They all suck.

I recommend whichever group performed best in this TL Party for you. If your results are inconclusive, I would recommend Mezashite’s version, because it had what I’d consider the most colorful dialogue (Expanded 3 as an example). Asenshi’s would be the runner-up, as for a number of lines they hit on the “natural” type of language I tend to enjoy (Expanded 9 as an example), despite their issues with lines like Essential 2.

Unfortunately, Anime-Koi suffered from serious understanding issues (Essential 4, Essential 5, Essential 8) accompanied by juvenile dialogue (multiple lines didn’t follow the others, and the writing was short and dull with too much word repetition and imprecise dialogue). I do not recommend watching their 01.

Group being Mezashite I assume? I only did the essentials and didn’t really keep count. I just noted that every group had at least one of the dumb errors, rather than one group carrying the idiot ball the whole way as I’d expected. Maybe that was the only mistake from your group.

Speaking of essential three, I gotta say, and this is directed at all groups, that “cut” is a pretty damn weak way to translate 斬る. Though I haven’t seen this show, so maybe it’s supposed to resonate with the whole scissors theme.

While I’m here, I’m not a fan of the “ironic, right?” with no explanation. What’s ironic? You localize so the non-Japanese-speaking audience can understand the story BETTER. You don’t localize to pretend the Japanese language doesn’t exist. Lots of groups are guilty of the latter.

If there is no further elaboration on her name, then the audience is left completely hanging, with the vague feeling that they missed something, but with no idea what it was they missed. And so you have failed as a translator to do your duty.

Anime-Koi: 5 times
Asenshi: 7 times
Mezashite: 5 times
Looks like your best bet is Asenshi

Wow, how did that happen?

Also, double-voted on “they all suck” 12 times because for some of them, all of the choices just seemed… off, for the lack of a better word, and there were a few that I wanted to mix-and-match a few things for some reason.

Though I must not’ve had a good night’s sleep last night or something, because I accidentally voted “Anime-Koi” in the last poll for some reason. I usually don’t slant-read unless I’m reading from, say, a long list (like a class roster) or at a weird angle over an ATM, but I don’t know what the hell happened there.

Yeah, I don’t balance the Essential/Extended to make sure people will get similar results straight through. My thought process is pretty much “The ten most significant differences/translations from the groups will go into the Essential and the other ten will get shoved to the Extended.”